Cox and Adams Exit LA CAGE; Allyce Beasley & Matt Anctil Join Company

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, winner of three 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, welcomes new cast members Allyce Beasley and Matt Anctil to the company. The production, starring five-time Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer and Tony and Olivier Award winner Douglas Hodge, is playing at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street).

Allyce Beasley will join the cast as Mme. Renaud / Mme. Dindon on Tuesday, September 14, replacing Veanne Cox, who will play her final performance on Sunday, September 12.

Beasley will make her Broadway debut in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. She is best known for her role as Ms. Dipesto on ABC's "Moonlighting," for which she received two Emmy, Golden Globe and American Comedy Award nominations. She was last seen in the recurring role of Ving Rhames' therapist on "Gravity" on Starz. She'll also be seen as Jason Schwartzman's mother Florence on HBO's "Bored 2 Death" this fall. Other TV credits include "Taxi," "Cheers," "Touched by an Angel," "Seventh Heaven," "Joan of Arcadia," "10/8," "As The World Turns" and "Medium". Film: Legally Blonde, Stuart Little, Loaded Weapon, Rumpelstiltskin, Tommyknockers, Entertaining Angels and Two Brothers and a Bride. Her theatre credits include Agnes Gooch in the Hollywood Bowl 2004's production of Mame, with Michele Lee and Christine Ebersole, The Drowsy Chaperone at the Gateway Playhouse, Anything Goes at the Carpenter Center, the female Odd Couple at the Cerritos Center and the national tour with Barbara Eden and the West Coast Premiere of Morticians in Love. This past spring, Ms. Beasley received critical acclaim as Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid, at the School House Theater in Croton Falls, NY. A twenty-year veteran of radio and voice over work, Ms. Beasley is currently the voice of Miss Grotke on the animated series, "Recess," and was heard every morning, for seven years, as the voice of Playhouse Disney.

Matt Anctil has joined the company and begins performances tonight as Angelique, one of the notorious and dangerous Cagelles, replacing Nick Adams.

Anctil is making his Broadway debut in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. His credits include the national and arena tour of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, numerous editions of Broadway Bares, Ticket to Ride, Fire Island Dance Festival 14, Stephen Schwartz: Making Music, Night of 1000 Gowns. Other concert and dance company appearances include Gilmore Boyz, Walker Dance, Cecilia Marta Dance Co., Max Luna III Dance Co., HopeBoykinDance and BalletRox/Urban Nutcracker. Workshops include The Great White Way, The Great Pretender and Séance on a Wet Afternoon. He trained at Boston Youth Moves and The Ailey School.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret. This production is choreographed by Lynne Page and directed by Terry Johnson, who won a 2010 Tony Award for his direction of the freshly reconceived production.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES stars Kelsey Grammer as Georges; Douglas Hodge as Albin; Fred Applegate as M. Dindon/M. Renaud; Veanne Cox as Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud; Chris Hoch as Francis; Elena Shaddow as Anne; A.J. Shively as Jean-Michel; Christine Andreas as Jacqueline; Robin De Jesús as Jacob; Heather Lindell as Colette; Bill Nolte as Tabarro and David Nathan Perlow as Etienne.

Also starring as the notorious and dangerous Cagelles are Matt Anctil as Angelique, Nicholas Cunningham as Hanna, Sean Patrick Doyle as Chantal, Yurel Echezarreta as Phaedra, Logan Keslar as Bitelle and Terry Lavell as Mercedes. The production also features Christophe Caballero, Todd Lattimore, Dale Hensley, Caitlin Mundth and Cheryl Stern.

Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Cunningham are appearing with the permission of Actors' Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' Equity Association for its assistance to this production.

PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, recorded the New Broadway Cast Recording for LA CAGE AUX FOLLES on August 5 and 6 for a September 28 release. The recording is produced by PS Classics co-founder Tommy Krasker. PS Classics co-founder Philip Chaffin will serve as Executive Producer. The album is currently available for pre-orders at www.psclassics.com.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES recently made Tony Awards history as the first show to ever win the Tony Award three times for best production. The classic musical comedy by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein originally won six Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical. A Broadway revival won two 2005 Tony Awards including the Best Revival of a Musical prize. LA CAGE won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, as well as Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical (Douglas Hodge) and Best Director of a Musical (Terry Johnson).

LA CAGE is also the winner of three Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Douglas Hodge) and Outstanding Costume Design (Matthew Wright), four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Douglas Hodge), Outstanding Director of a Musical (Terry Johnson) and Outstanding Costume Design (Matthew Wright) and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Revival of a Musical.

Georges (Kelsey Grammer) is the suave owner of a glitzy drag club on the French Riviera. Partnered romantically with his high-strung star performer, Albin (Douglas Hodge), the pair live a charmed life-until Georges' son announces his engagement to the daughter of a conservative right-wing politician who's coming to dinner.

The original production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES was one of Broadway's biggest hits of the 1980s. It opened August 21, 1983 at the Palace Theatre, where it played for over four years and 1,761 performances. The show won six Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical, Best Score (Jerry Herman) and Best Book (Harvey Fierstein).

The new production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES played from November 23, 2007 to March 8, 2008 at the Menier Chocolate Factory, earning across the board raves and moving to the West End's Playhouse Theatre on October 30, 2008, where it was nominated for seven 2009 Olivier Awards, winning for Best Musical Revival and Best Actor in a Musical for Douglas Hodge and won the 2009 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical. The Broadway production opened at the Longacre Theatre on April 18, 2010.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features set design by Tim Shortall, costume design by Matthew Wright, lighting design by Nick Richings, sound design by Jonathan Deans and wig and makeup design by Richard Mawbey. Musical supervision, orchestrations and dance arrangements are by Jason Carr. Musical director is Todd Ellison.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, David Babani, Fran and Barry Weissler and Edwin W. Schloss, Bartner/Tulchin, Broadway Across America, Matthew Mitchell, Raise the Roof 4 Richard Winkler/Bensinger Taylor/Laudenslager Bergère, Arlene Scanlan/John O'Boyle, Independent Presenters Network, Olympus Theatricals, Allen Spivak, Jerry Frankel/Bat-Barry Productions, Nederlander Presentations, Inc/Harvey Weinstein.

Tickets ($140.00 - $36.50; Premium $251.50; Table Seating $251.50) are on sale through Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200, online at www.telecharge.com/lacage and at the Longacre Theatre box office (220 West 48th Street). Performances are Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 PM, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM.